Jasmine And What She Does In Her Cage Part I

Jazzy has a large cage (well, actually she has two large cages, but that's another story). This one stands 143 cm (4'8") tall from the floor to the top of the cage, 86 cm (2'10") wide and 61 cm (2') deep. It has a nice wide and tall door on the front.

This cage has some great features. It's easy to clean because both the grating at the bottom and the tray slide out easily. The whole cage dismantles, without any screws or bolts of any kind, into separate pieces for easy transportation. And it's easy to move for cleaning underneath it because it's on wheels. The shelf below the cage is excellent for storing toys and food pellets. And, should you need it, there are slots on the sides to allow for other cages like it to be joined alongside. I don't have the brand name, but there are similar cages at The Birdsafe Store.

Jazzy likes to sit where you see her there on her wood perch and chat about things, all sorts of things.

The top of her cage has pieces of cardboard (mainly from cereal boxes) interwoven along the bars. Jazzers likes to climb up to there from the inside of the cage to tear and pull these down. It's great fun trying to put them in place because Jazzy thinks it's the best game to get there first and see who can win at either pulling them out (J) or weaving them in (me)! But she's always gentle and so we both have lots of fun doing this.

Another game we like to play at the top of her cage is what we call 'gotchas'. She clambers along the bars upside down, and I follow her from above with my hand, gently touching her feet, sometimes her leg, sometimes her tummy and then I say 'I gotcha foot!', or whatever it is I'm touching. She loves doing this and usually ends up twisting herself double to put her head between her legs close to the bars for a head rub. And then we have a quiet moment where she enjoys a little scritch around her neck and on top of her head.

At night the cage is covered with a light sheet and she sleeps on the blue perch.



If she has been stationary for a while she always stretches before she does anything else.

As usual with Jazzy photos, you can click on the images to see them enlarged.

Sometimes she looks like she's doing tai chi.









She likes to meander over to her pellet food bowl and take a chomp at the wood toy she has nearby.Below her on the floor of the cage is her stainless steel silver bowl, which is full of toys. And at the back there's a tattered empty tissue box that she likes to chew on from time to time. She makes her way down to the bars to the bottom of the cage to her silver bowl...

...to investigate the toys she has.


She loves to spend long periods of time playing in her bowl, digging through the many things she has there.